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Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 12/04/2022 18:21, Laurence Perkins wrote: |
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>> You can get up to 16X SATA PCI-e cards these days for pretty cheap. |
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>> So as long as you have the power to run another drive or two there's |
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>> not much reason not to do RAID on the important stuff. Also, the |
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>> SATA protocol allows for port expanders, which are also pretty cheap. |
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>> One of my favorite things about BTRFS is the data checksums. If the |
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>> drive returns garbage, it turns into a read error. Also, if you |
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>> can't do real RAID, but have excess space you can tell it to keep two |
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>> copies of everything. Doesn't help with total drive failure, but |
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>> does protect against the occasional failed sector. If you don't mind |
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>> writes taking twice as long anyway. |
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> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid |
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> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/System2020 |
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> That system in the second link is the system being used to type this |
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> message ... |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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Neat setup. I need something similar for a NAS setup thingy. Just got |
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way to much going on right now. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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